I want to 301 redirect a bunch of files from a subdomain to another domain. This is my .htaccess file, can someone supply the code that works with nginx
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^media.ahemahem.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.media.ahemahem.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ “http://www.ahemahem.com/wp-content/uploads/$1” [R=301,L]
and where should I add this code? I’ve set up a A record (media) for the domain (ahemahem.com) at digitalocean and I’ve set my main domain too. I’ve installed Wordpress on ahemahem.com using Easy Engine which works on Nginx.
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Google is an amazing thing. It finds you things like http://winginx.com/en/htaccess that turn your .htaccess rewrites into nginx configuration that looks like this: <br> <br># nginx configuration <br>location / { <br>if ($http_host ~ “^media.ahemahem.com$”){ <br>rewrite ^(.*)$ /“http:/www.ahemahem.com/wp-content/uploads/$1” redirect; <br>} <br>} <br> <br>It goes in your config file.
Yeah, already tried that stuff which didn’t work and resulted in my server failing and all my sites went down. So I asked here. It was supposed to go in the nginx.conf files right? In the main /var/www/site.com/nginx.conf or etc/nginx/nginx.conf? I tried on both. In site.com it doesnt work where as in other he server crashes. <br> <br>I’ve pointed media.ahemahem.com to my droplet ip. Do I need to do anything else?
@talwarsaksham: The location block needs to be inside of the server block. What were the actual errors you were seeing?
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